Democratic weather, bark beetle survey, dog saves life and hobo pool preferred

100 Years Ago

Sept. 17, 1914

Well, we had a fine summer. Crops have been good and the farmer and rancher both wear smiles “that isn’t going to be pulled off with a donkey.” The weather was especially fine until Saturday afternoon, when it went democratic and remained with us a few days. However, this may clear up the situation until late in the fall. Like all democratic conditions, there is generally a long republican spell after the shock. The next snow will arrive somewhere between the 2nd and the 7th of November, 1914, according to the political weather forecast, but it will not be a democratic snow, but a nice, warm friendly snow, obliterating all track of the donkey.

75 Years Ago

Sept. 21, 1939

Two local men, Harold Willford and George H. Evans, are now engaged in the checking of the “Bug” trees on the Medicine Bow national forest. They are working in the Brush Creek area, but according to Forest Service reports, about 200,000 acres of the northern part of the forest will be surveyed this fall.

This will be the third consecutive year that the Forest Service has waged war on the beetles, and after the survey is completed actual eradication work will get under way again if enough infected trees are found to warrant the work. During the last two years both citizen crews and CCC enrollees have been employed on the eradication projects, and hundreds of infected trees have been felled and scorched ion order to destroy the beetles and their larvae.

50 Years Ago

Sept. 17, 1964

John Huntley was released from the Rawlins hospital Friday after receiving two days treatment for conditions resulting from near-asphyxiation.

The incident occurred at the Huntley’s cabin on the R. R. Crow & Co. timber sale on Pass creek Tuesday night, due to a faulty gas refrigerator, Mrs. Huntley told the Sun this week. She said her husband was apparently overcome by the fumes during the night and credited the family dog with saving his life by disturbing him and forcing him to move in the ensuing hours when a long period of inactivity would have been fatal.

25 Years Ago

Sept. 20, 1989

To our “City Fathers” via the Saratoga Sun:

What’s up? What’s become of the honorable, venerable and historic Hobo Pool in Saratoga? (I am, of course, referring to the new signs in town directing traffic to the Saratoga Hot Springs.)

What are we doing? Spiffying up Saratoga for Wyoming’s Centennial? Or what?

Most every place with bubbling thermal waters has “Hot Springs.” Can’t we be exclusive with our “Hobo Pool?” After all, it has been that for over 100 years. We doubt that it has hurt Saratoga’s image much.

Sincerely,

Ada Bouril Jackson

Saratoga